Domingos Paciência

Domingos

Personal information
Full name	Domingos José Paciência de Oliveira
Date of birth	January 2, 1969 (1969-01-02) (age 42)
Place of birth	Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sporting CP (coach)
Youth career
1982–1987	Porto
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1987–1997	Porto	232	(97)
1997–1999	Tenerife	50	(6)
1999–2001	Porto	31	(9)
Total		313	(112)
National team
1989	Portugal U21	1	(0)
1989–1998	Portugal	35	(9)
Teams managed
2001–2004	Porto B (assistant)
2004–2005	Porto B
2006–2007	União Leiria
2007–2009	Académica
2009–2011	Braga
2011–	Sporting CP
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Domingos José Paciência de Oliveira, simply Domingos as a player (Portuguese pronunciation: [duˈmĩɣuʃ]); born 2 January 1969 in Leça da Palmeira), is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a striker, and a current manager.

He achieved success with both Porto and the Portuguese national team, appearing in more than 350 official games with the former over the course of 12 seasons (nearly 150 goals), and representing the latter at Euro 1996.

After completing his accreditation in 2005, Domingos resumed his career as a manager, notably helping Braga reach the 2011 Europa League final.

Playing career

A F.C. Porto trainee since he was 13,^[1] discovered at local Atlético de Leça, Domingos proved to be a terrific goalscorer despite being physically weak. Tomislav Ivić eventually decided he should be the replacement for an ageing Fernando Gomes, and made his main squad debut at age 19, being crowned top scorer in the Portuguese league in the 1995–96 season; previously, in 1990–91, he was involved in a last-matchday battle for the Bola de Prata award with S.L. Benfica's Rui Águas, with Águas' team having won the championship the game before: Domingos played first, putting four past Vitória de Guimarães in a 5–0 home win, going from 20 to 24 goals. Águas appeared hours later against S.C. Beira-Mar, and bagged two second-half goals in an eventual 3–0 triumph, finishing with 25.

In 1997–98, Domingos moved to the Canary Islands' CD Tenerife, one season after Porto signed prolific striker Mário Jardel. There, he teamed up with Roy Makaay, but never fully adapted to La Liga, netting only once in his final season - which ended in relegation - in a 1–2 home loss against Deportivo Alavés.

Domingos eventually returned to Porto two years later, who outbid Sporting Clube de Portugal at the eleventh hour. While cherished by the crowd, he didn't impose himself as in the past, and retired at the end of the 2000–01. He won seven league titles, six supercups and five cups.

For Portugal, Domingos scored nine goals in 35 appearances, including one against Croatia at UEFA Euro 1996, as the national team reached the quarterfinals.

International goals

Domingos Paciência: International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	19 December 1990	Estádio Prof. Dr. José Vieira de Carvalho, Maia, Portugal	United States	1–0	1–0	Friendly
2	7 September 1994	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–2	1–2	Euro 1996 qualifying
3	18 December 1994	Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal	Liechtenstein	1–0	8–0	Euro 1996 qualifying
4	18 December 1994	Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal	Liechtenstein	2–0	8–0	Euro 1996 qualifying
5	3 June 1995	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	Latvia	3–0	3–2	Euro 1996 qualifying
6	15 August 1995	Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen, Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	0–1	0–7	Euro 1996 qualifying
7	3 September 1995	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	Northern Ireland	1–0	1–1	Euro 1996 qualifying
8	19 June 1996	City Ground, Nottingham, England	Croatia	0–3	0–3	UEFA Euro 1996
9	20 August 1997	Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal, Portugal	Armenia	1–0	3–1	1998 World Cup qualification

Manager career

Leiria and Académica

After his retirement, Domingos was assigned to coach Porto's youth teams, and later, the reserves. After completing his level three managing course, Domingos left Porto and was hired as manager of first division team União de Leiria for 2006–07. He also opened a football school in Matosinhos with former Porto teammate Rui Barros.

Despite a good work overall, leading the team to a seventh-place finish, Domingos left the club before the end of the season, after having fallen out with club president and player Adriano Rossato.^[2]

The following season Domingos took the reins of another top level side, Académica de Coimbra, after Manuel Machado resigned. In his first two years in charge of the Students, he led the side to two consecutive league wins at Benfica (3–0, 1–0). In his second season, he led the club to the seventh position, the best in 24 years.

Braga

In June 2009, Paciência resigned, after receiving an offer from Sporting de Braga, which had just lost manager Jorge Jesus to Benfica. In his first season, despite a bad start which included being knocked out of the UEFA Europa League in the third qualifying round by IF Elfsborg, he guided the Minho club to an historical campaign, leading the league for most of the season and eventually securing the second position - a best ever, behind Benfica - and subsequent UEFA Champions League qualification; the team became only the fifth in the country to reach the competition's group stage, after ousting Celtic FC (4–2 on aggregate) and Sevilla FC (5–3) in the qualifying rounds.

After a bad start to both the domestic and the Champions League campaigns, Braga slowly recovered their form, finishing in fourth position in the former and in third in the latter, with the subsequent Europa League qualification, where Domingos led the team to the final, after disposing of Lech Poznań, Liverpool, FC Dynamo Kyiv and Benfica; as he had announced in May 2011, he left his post after the game against Porto.^[3]

Sporting

On 23 May 2011, Domingos was named José Couceiro's successor at Sporting Clube de Portugal.^[4] His move to Lisbon was largely expected following the election of Luís Godinho Lopes as club president.^[5]

Honours

Player

Team

• Portuguese League: 1987–88, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97
• Portuguese Cup: 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2000–01
• Portuguese Supercup: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000

Individual

• Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 1990
• Portuguese Golden Ball: 1990
• Portuguese League: Top scorer 1996

Manager

• UEFA Europa League: Runner-up 2010–11

Managerial stats

Last updated 31 October 2011

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
União Leiria		18 May 2006	30 March 2007	&1000000000000002400000024	&100000000000000090000009	&100000000000000060000006	&100000000000000090000009	&1000000000000003750000037.50
Académica		12 September 2007	26 May 2009	&1000000000000006500000065	&1000000000000001900000019	&1000000000000002400000024	&1000000000000002200000022	&1000000000000002923000029.23
Braga		23 June 2009	18 May 2011	&1000000000000008500000085	&1000000000000005000000050	&1000000000000001200000012	&1000000000000002300000023	&1000000000000005882000058.82
Sporting		1 July 2011		&1000000000000001500000015	&1000000000000001100000011	&100000000000000030000003	&100000000000000010000001	&1000000000000007332999973.33
Total				&10000000000000189000000189	&1000000000000008900000089	&1000000000000004500000045	&1000000000000005500000055	&1000000000000004709000047.09

References

1. ^ "Domingos Paciência". UEFA.com. http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/clubs/coach=1704/profile/index.html. Retrieved 25 May 2011. 
2. ^ Domingos abandona equipa (Domingos leaves team); Record, 30 March 2007 (Portuguese)
3. ^ Paciência to leave Braga after all-Portuguese final; UEFA.com, 10 May 2011
4. ^ "Official: Domingos Paciencia appointed new Sporting Lisbon coach". Goal.com. 23 May 2011. http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2885/europe/2011/05/23/2500131/official-domingos-paciencia-appointed-new-sporting-lisbon. Retrieved 25 May 2011. 
5. ^ "Domingos é o treinador de Godinho Lopes [Domingos is Godinho Lopes' manager]". Correio da Manhã. 18 March 2011. http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/sport/sporting/domingos-e-o-treinador-de-godinho-lopes. Retrieved 22 June 2011. 

External links

• Player and coach profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo (Portuguese)
• Coach stats at ForaDeJogo (Portuguese)
• BDFutbol profile
• Domingos Paciência at National-Football-Teams.com

Persondata
Name	Paciencia, Domingos
Alternative names	Domingos
Short description	Portuguese football player/manager
Date of birth	2 January 1969
Place of birth	Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Date of death
Place of death